295/65/15s anyone running them on A body

I have a 69 barracuda. I moved the leaf springs in, moved the inner wheel well in 1.5 inches narrowed the rear 1.5 inches from each side I was thinking of running 295/65/15s Any thoughts ? Anyone running this size ?

That is a nice size tire. Dimensionally close to a true N50 x 15". Maybe search around on this site if you have already not done so.


http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/forums/big-block-a-body-tech.79/

Yea I belong to that site. All kinds of info. Some say they will fit some say not. Id like to find someone with pictures.

I think those are almost 30" tall or so. I have a 68 Fasbatck and run a 28x10.5 Pro Bracket Radial and there is very little room for a taller tire. I ran a bias slick for a little bit and it actually rubbed the front of the fender opening at high speed, not much but just enough to make a shiny spot. The radial doesn't grow so there is no trouble there anymore. I don't think a 30" tire would clear without either really pulling it in to the middle of the car or doing some body work.

The front edge of the wheel opening is always tightest to large-diameter tires on Mopars, whether front or rear.

I am running 295/55 15 MT drag radials on mintubbed 67 dart on 15x10 rims with 7.5" backspacing. also cut the quarter lip. fits easily and I think there is room for a 315/50 in there next go-round.

I ran those tires on 10 inch rims with 5.0 offset on the back side on my 1971 Duster that had the 8 3/4 one inch narrower than stock. I had the stock outer 1/4 panel wheel wells stretch 5 inches, three to the front and two to the rear. It had ladder bars with coil over rear suspension and full size wheel tubs to the stock inner rear sub frames.
I started off running the larger M/T ET Street Radials 315x60x15 on those same rims and ended up buying the 295 really cheap so I bought them and put the 315 on a set of 12 inch rims with the same zero offset I raced the car a lot at the track and the smaller tires didn't last as long as the bigger tires did They worked well, not slower at all
I also ran the same size M/T ET Street bias ply tires,13x31x15 I think, on the street, they worked way better on the street than either set of the radials did
That car was a lot faster than I thought it would be, 10.30s Et at 127 .+ MPH through the exhaust on Oregon pump swill on the radials